Economic inequality
More or Less: Behind the Stats. Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others? Audio, 9 minutes
Why Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
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The Explanation. How does the New York Stock Exchange work? Audio, 18 minutes
Valued at over $25 trillion, does it spread wealth or increase inequality?
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- Posted17 March
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- Posted12 February
More or Less: Behind the Stats. Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people? Audio, 10 minutes
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
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- Posted2 January
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- Posted18 November 2023
Analysis. Is there a new elite? Audio, 28 minutes
Who’s really in charge? A new progressive elite, or the rich, privileged born-to-rule?
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The Documentary Podcast. BBC OS Conversations: Race in France. Audio, 24 minutes
France has questions to answer around inequity and its approach to policing
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- Posted28 March 2023
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- Posted9 February 2023
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- Posted19 January 2023
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- Posted19 January 2023
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- Posted19 January 2023
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- Posted16 January 2023
Thinking Allowed. Dirty Work. Audio, 28 minutes
Dirty work - the invisible labour we choose not to see.
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The Reith Lectures. The Four Freedoms, 3. Freedom from Want. Audio, 74 minutes
Author and musician Darren McGarvey, delivers his Reith Lecture on 'Freedom from Want'.
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Understand. The Economy, The Economy: 10. Inequality. Audio, 15 minutes
Why are the rich, rich and the poor, poor, and was it always this way?
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The Documentary Podcast. The reluctant millionaires. Audio, 51 minutes
Abigail Disney meets an unusual group of millionaires who are demanding to pay more tax
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A Point of View. Trickle Down. Audio, 9 minutes
Howard Jacobson takes on the proponents of the horse-and-sparrow theory of economics.
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- Posted4 October 2022
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- Posted26 September 2022
Across the Red Line. Is private education divisive? Audio, 42 minutes
Anne McElvoy invites figures on opposed sides of an issue to listen to each other.
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